This could be a post for the black&white community... but no, it's this week's SMAP theme! Birds in black and white seem a great combination, even in the most coloured species. So here's a collection from all over the place, from the hunters to the little ones.
I was actually considering using just close up photos of the big birds for this post, but after playing with photos a little bit, the contrast between the other elements in the photo and the birds in the absence of colours made me enjoy the little birds photos much more, and this one is probably my favourite: a munia staring at me in the middle of a rice field (she was probably annoyed for having her meal disturbed).
Another bird from Indonesia (just as the previous one) that looked great in monochromes, and another one that was looking at me with a rather annoyed look; now that I think of it, I'm starting to detect a pattern here...
Ok, moving along to birds that didn't felt harassed, or at least that didn't made annoyed faces!
Geese have a friendly face most of the time... unless you get in their nerves, and then quickly become the dawnbringers from hell. Fortunately, this bunch was just chilling and enjoying the sunshine in a (very) cold afternoon, during the Icelandic winter.
Here's another one with a mean face, but this time I had nothing to do with it! He noticed me for sure, but I was using a full 50x zoom, so was far away enough for him not to feel threatened. Not that common to be able to capture birds of prey in the ground, so I felt really lucky with this one!
Let's go back to the little ones. This one from Portugal, from my last vacations.
This almost seems a sad photo, the little bird staring at the ground... it's so high, how will I be able to go back down? It was a cloudy morning indeed, but the little one one didn't seem sad at all... he was probably choosing where was he going to feed after flying away.
Let's end with another one, flying to Cabo Verde! Where we can find "cousins" of our common house sparrows.
These ones are a tiny bit smaller than the common ones, and were happily foraging in the grass in from of the hotel where I was staying... and at least this one didn't made an angry face when he spotted me with the camera! :)
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